Estacio Valoi

Sep 12, 2024 | investigative-malawi.org | Estacio Valoi

By Estacio Valoi, September 2024, MozambiqueThe Quirimbas National Park in Cabo Delgado, Mozambiqe, is a UNESCO heritage site described on its website as “a hidden gem in Africa’s crown, with beautiful coastal forest, secluded islands, and turquoise waters.” It has supposedly received significant amounts in “green” funds from France, Italy, the EU, the World Bank, and other donors to ensure its continued existence as a pristine biosphere.

Sep 12, 2024 | zammagazine.com | Estacio Valoi |Josephine Chinele |Taiwo Adebulu |Ngina Kirori

The Quirimbas National Park in Cabo Delgado, Mozambiqe, is a UNESCO heritage site described on its website as “a hidden gem in Africa’s crown, with beautiful costal forest, secluded islands, and turquoise waters.” It has supposedly received significant amounts in “green” funds from France, Italy, the EU, the World Bank, and other donors to ensure its continued existence as a pristine biosphere. But rapacious logging inside the park is devastating the area.

Nov 20, 2023 | zammagazine.com | Evelyn Groenink |Oluwatosin Adeshokan |Estacio Valoi

On 31 January, the same day that the Network of African Investigative Reporters and Editors called out Africa’s oppressive kleptocrat regimes, Malawian investigative editor Gregory Gondwe received note that the Military Police in that country were looking for him. The reason why the security forces had set out to take him in ‘for a chat’ at military barracks, he heard, was an article he had published two days before, on January 29th.

Sep 6, 2023 | investigative-malawi.org | Estacio Valoi

By Estacio ValoiIn spite of government policies supposed to assist community-based mining, villagers who had hoped to explore “the wealth beneath their feet” were “cheated” out of their concession again. The third and final instalment of our investigative series on small-scale mining in southern Africa looks at how a ruling party says one thing, yet does another, in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique.

Sep 6, 2023 | zammagazine.com | Charles Mafa |Linda Soko |Estacio Valoi

Shady officials, ruling party members, at least one “impersonator”, a war veteran and, in Zimbabwe, a government-linked mafia, obtain mining rights in communities where mineral wealth is found, then partner with foreign companies to get rich together. This happens in spite of progressive policies that are supposed to enable and regulate community-based artisanal mining.